You provide services to install, configure, maintain, and customize the OSS core.
Or you use the OSS components to build custom solutions.
Except for wildly successful proprietary solutions, the money has always been in the customization. The only difference with OSS is you may have competition because other people also have access to that same OSS core.
The blame should be placed squarely on the shoulder's of the bank administrators. There is absolutely NO EXCUSE for not noticing a 2 BILLION DOLLAR LOSS.
It's not the computers.
It's not the traders.
It's not the system.
It's the BANKS ADMINISTRATION.
And it's high time that those lazy incompetent greedy bastards were held RESPONSIBLE for their incompetence instead of getting "bonuses."
Even if a company or government agency is putting trackers on company vehicles, I think the employees using them should be made aware they're being tracked.
But to put a tracker on someone's private vehicle without notifying them? Even the FBI isn't allowed to do that!
So if I develop something and release it as open source, any jerk with the money to pay for a patent filing can file a patent on my work and claim it as their own, because they were the first to file.:(
It's not about software-as-a-service compilers, it's about exposing the internal data structures and information a compiler produces to the programmer. This lets you go a level beyond introspection and into some interesting possibilities.
The Register cites this as evidence that corporate tax breaks don't create jobs, as companies look to spend spare cash instead on acquisitions.
You'd think 15-20 years of offshoring and outsourcing would have made the governments of the world realize the only thing tax breaks do is line the pockets of big corporations. There is no "trickle down" effect any more. Companies don't "expand"; they "acquire." And then they cut duplicate jobs.
This is the most pathetic excuse for an article ever posted by Slashdot. It's complete bunk.
Gigabit NICs are standard equipment. Just because a single machine can't saturate the link due to other IO bottlenecks doesn't make the technology premature or useless. It just means you've got a really, really crappy laptop.
Most of the green energy sources are not viable by themselves. They're too unstable. Wind gusts cause surges for wind power. Solar doesn't produce anything at night. The only one that sounds like it might be viable is wave energy, and that only on shorelines that are never flat.
So to fill in, you need nuclear, coal, or gas plants.
It shows the naysayers you can write a full OS kernel without C.
This is the stupidest motive for writing an operating system I've ever heard of. What about VMS, written in FORTRAN? Or HP RTE-A, also written in FORTRAN?
Do you think the "classic" operating systems were written in a language that didn't even EXIST yet?
The most influential programming book I owned was the first one I owned: The Z-80 Assembly manual. That got me started on real programming. The TRS-80 may not have been a great machine compared to what we have now, but it was a great bare-bones-metal learning tool.
Personally I think "Exclusive" title arrangements should be illegal. But as long as developers can get a premium fee for making their work platform-exclusive, we'll have to put up with the practice.
Then again, given the shitty quality of some ports, maybe it'd be better if all developer's focused on one platform first and got it right before they tried tacking other development environments.
I wouldn't count on that. Downloading is rampant in Canada, because our government signed off on a surcharge for blank CDs that assumed everyone was using them to burn pirated music. As a result, downloading music is LEGAL in Canada -- we've paid for the privelege as a society.
Needless to say, the *AA are not happy about shooting themselves in the foot by pushing for that surcharge. They were just after the money, and didn't think about it's legal implications.
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You provide services to install, configure, maintain, and customize the OSS core.
Or you use the OSS components to build custom solutions.
Except for wildly successful proprietary solutions, the money has always been in the customization. The only difference with OSS is you may have competition because other people also have access to that same OSS core.
The blame should be placed squarely on the shoulder's of the bank administrators. There is absolutely NO EXCUSE for not noticing a 2 BILLION DOLLAR LOSS.
It's not the computers.
It's not the traders.
It's not the system.
It's the BANKS ADMINISTRATION.
And it's high time that those lazy incompetent greedy bastards were held RESPONSIBLE for their incompetence instead of getting "bonuses."
Even if a company or government agency is putting trackers on company vehicles, I think the employees using them should be made aware they're being tracked.
But to put a tracker on someone's private vehicle without notifying them? Even the FBI isn't allowed to do that!
If a vendor has to recompile an application with a few minor changes, they might do it.
But if they've got to rewrite using Metro, they're more likely to just ignore ARM.
Hell, I don't even want Metro interface apps on x86! Why would I want to be constrained to touchscreen considerations on a desktop?
So if I develop something and release it as open source, any jerk with the money to pay for a patent filing can file a patent on my work and claim it as their own, because they were the first to file. :(
What? Did computers mysteriously lose the ability to save information to the hard drive?
It's not about software-as-a-service compilers, it's about exposing the internal data structures and information a compiler produces to the programmer. This lets you go a level beyond introspection and into some interesting possibilities.
Yeah, it's pretty hard to avoid bankruptcy when your primary business has been shut down.
What's the big deal?
Ray tracing isn't new.
Parallel processing isn't new.
It's an old game.
What makes this news?
The only people who get anything out of most class-actions are the lawyers anyhow.
You can't really get a cluster for that kind of money. You can barely get one decent box.
But you shoud be able to rent a lot of computer time in the cloud for that kind of money, or use it to buy time on someone else's cluster.
Funny how companies keep eating the retraining costs, while claiming those same training costs are the reason they don't deploy Linux desktops.
I'm curious: will this new gaming "platform" be DRM locked, or will you be able to play the games on any Android device powerful enough to do so?
You'd think 15-20 years of offshoring and outsourcing would have made the governments of the world realize the only thing tax breaks do is line the pockets of big corporations. There is no "trickle down" effect any more. Companies don't "expand"; they "acquire." And then they cut duplicate jobs.
This is the most pathetic excuse for an article ever posted by Slashdot. It's complete bunk.
Gigabit NICs are standard equipment. Just because a single machine can't saturate the link due to other IO bottlenecks doesn't make the technology premature or useless. It just means you've got a really, really crappy laptop.
And as long as there are people willing to buy yet another copy, they'll keep on selling yet another copy.
Most of the green energy sources are not viable by themselves. They're too unstable. Wind gusts cause surges for wind power. Solar doesn't produce anything at night. The only one that sounds like it might be viable is wave energy, and that only on shorelines that are never flat.
So to fill in, you need nuclear, coal, or gas plants.
The stock markets are no longer about investing in companies you believe in or who have a solid track record. It's just computerized gambling.
I don't see how this is any different than worryabout trademark registrations for .edu, .net, .org, or the country code TLDs.
If you really want to protect your trademark, you have to register an awful lot of TLDs just to cover one variation on a name.
Fortunately the convention seems to be that whoever registers for a .com, first implicily has the rights to that name in other .TLDs.
This is the stupidest motive for writing an operating system I've ever heard of. What about VMS, written in FORTRAN? Or HP RTE-A, also written in FORTRAN?
Do you think the "classic" operating systems were written in a language that didn't even EXIST yet?
Yes, that was the one. :)
The most influential programming book I owned was the first one I owned: The Z-80 Assembly manual. That got me started on real programming. The TRS-80 may not have been a great machine compared to what we have now, but it was a great bare-bones-metal learning tool.
Personally I think "Exclusive" title arrangements should be illegal. But as long as developers can get a premium fee for making their work platform-exclusive, we'll have to put up with the practice.
Then again, given the shitty quality of some ports, maybe it'd be better if all developer's focused on one platform first and got it right before they tried tacking other development environments.
I wouldn't count on that. Downloading is rampant in Canada, because our government signed off on a surcharge for blank CDs that assumed everyone was using them to burn pirated music. As a result, downloading music is LEGAL in Canada -- we've paid for the privelege as a society.
Needless to say, the *AA are not happy about shooting themselves in the foot by pushing for that surcharge. They were just after the money, and didn't think about it's legal implications.
If you want to get up an hour early in the summer, get your ass out of bed!
Why should the rest of us screw up our sleep rhythms because you don't want to reset your alarm clock?